This is the third activity of the Think Lab sessions. The aim of this activity was to introduce us to different viewpoints on the same issue. It required us to look at things holistically and understand how different people may be connected by one common situation.
Today, the activity was known as stakeholder mapping.
Stakeholder: The term 'stakeholder' refers to anyone that has an interest in a project and can influence its success. Stakeholders may include Suppliers. Internal staff, Customers, etc.
Stakeholder Mapping: Stakeholder mapping is the visual process of laying out all the stakeholders of a product, project, or idea on one map. The main benefit of a stakeholder map is to get a visual representation of all the people who can influence our project and how they are connected.
Warm-up Activity
The warm activity is a glimpse of the main activity to be held later in the day. It is meant to familiarize us with the activity and prepare us for the larger session of the day.
In today’s warm-up activity, each group was assigned a picture. We had to introspect the situation and identify the stakeholders in that particular situation. The stakeholders can be direct, indirect, local, or international.
Our group was assigned a picture of a tea stall in a market.
We plotted the stakeholders in a concentric circle, according to our relevance. This was our stakeholder mind mapping.
After the warm-up session, there will be a small discussion of ideas in class which helped us to improve our mind mapping.
Main Activity
'Understanding other people make a better designer and it also makes life a whole lot easier.'
For this activity, each group member tried to capture the perspective of anyone stakeholder that is visible in the given picture. Our group discussed and thought about interesting, relevant, and connected dialogs from their viewpoint.
I have made the viewpoint of the tea seller.
Strategic Discussions
For this session, I worked collaboratively with Adrisha, Harshil, Mehak, and Mohak. I had a completely different experience with this group. We shared our work with the larger group to receive constructive feedback from our peers and faculties.
Group Achievements
SUPPORTIVE: The group members were encouraging and supportive at the same time. We willingly helped each other in terms of generating ideas as well as improvising them.
PATIENT: They were really indulgent and patient. Everyone was interacting and taking part in the discussion calmly and professionally.
COORDINATION: Our group worked collectively with each other. They contributed their honest feedbacks and also shared improvement strategies.
Challenges
PETTINESS: In the main activity, showing pettiness while writing the dialogue of our character was a challenge that all of us faced.
Reflection
The think lab session was really helpful. We observed, discussed, and discovered various perspectives to a given context. We understood participants with respect to a setting and their diverse interests at hand.
LEARNING MANTRAS
Don’t show pettiness while designing